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Recommendations where to buy fin stock?
Where can I find balsa and bass wood at a good price?
Thank you!
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I've bought mine at our local Michael's craft store as well as Hobby Lobby. The balsa at our local R/C airplane shop (where I bought rockets at 40 year ago) turned out to be too lightweight for my rocketry purposes. You can also pick up hardwood (spruce) dowels for detailing, if that trips your trigger. .
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If all you need are a few sheets then Rocketarium has a good assortment:
https://www.rocketarium.com/Build/Balsa-Hardwood I buy mine in bulk from Hobbylinc because I do a lot of building: http://www.hobbylinc.com/hobby-and-craft-wood
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Back when I used to purchase a lot of wood, Balsa USA used to have prices a lot better than Midwest or Sig. I don't know if they still do, but would be worth checking.
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I just bought some specialty balsa, triangle stock and trailing edge stock, from Sig and the price + shipping was comparable to National Balsa and Balsa USA. Balsa has gotten expensive thanks to the wind turbine people.
Triangle stock for Nike-Ajax conduits and trailing edge stock for two-piece faceted fins for Nikes.
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They were once my go-to place for balsa also. They had re-badged Bob Smith epoxy pretty cheap too. I haven't ordered from them in several years.
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One of the big balsa companies had a disastrous fire about the same time the turbine industry started hitting. I can't remember which. I want to say it was Lonestar Balsa, but it might have been Superior or National. At any rate, it caused a shortage in addition to the turbine industry issues and prices shot up (like beef today). The prices never came back down. As for beef, even though ground beef is about $8 a pound here, I can't sell my cattle for more than 30 cents a pound right now. I'm running out of pasture and I've been out of hay for a while.
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It was Lone Star. I still have a fair supply from prior orders from them, but it's much more suitable for electric airplane structures than fins (as much of it is contest grade wood—light and therfore also soft).
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I’m very, very sorry about your cows my friend and the problems you are having.
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Somebody sure is making $$ on beef, and as usual it isn't going where it belongs, to those that raise it.
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